In America everything's about who's number one today.

When I was young I was very shy and that was my personality. I was a pretty sensitive kid and quite neurotic, filled with a lot of anxiety.

The songs themselves do broaden out as time passes and take on subtly different meanings, take on more meaning, I find.

Is there anybody alive out there?

I had a ten-piece band when I was 21 years old, the Bruce Springsteen Band. This is just a slightly expanded version of a band I had before I ever signed a record contract. We had singers and horns.

I can sing very comfortably from my vantage point because a lot of the music was about a loss of innocence, there's innocence contained in you but there's also innocence in the process of being lost.

Nothing matters in the whole wide world when you're in love with a Jersey girl.